'When your boss tells you support for a rogue state is a condition of employment, you either comply or you question. I questioned'
Joanne Carney left behind her six-figure salary, pension, and security at tech giant Oracle because she could no longer abide what she calls the company’s 'complicity in genocide'
In 2017, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison donated $16.6m to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Picture: Aaron Schwartz/Sipa/Bloomberg
When Joanne Carney handed in her resignation at Oracle this summer, there were likely raised eyebrows amongst her colleagues, but few from those who know her best.
She had spent 19 years developing a career that culminated at the software giant, rising steadily to a director role with a six-figure salary, a position most would envy.
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